2 Server installation with MySQL database

It is a good practice to have the innodb_file_per_table option enabled on MySQL. Check this setting before proceeding.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS

Installing packages

Here is an example for Zabbix server and web frontend installation with MySQL database:

# yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql

Creating initial database

Create Zabbix database and user on MySQL by the following commands, where <root_password> shall be replaced with the actual root password (e.g., shell> mysql -uroot -p12345) and <password> with new password for zabbix user on the database (including apostrophes: …identified by '67890';):

Starting Zabbix server process

It's time to start Zabbix server process and make it start at system boot:

# systemctl start zabbix-server
# systemctl enable zabbix-server

PHP configuration for Zabbix frontend

Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf. Some PHP settings are already configured. But it's necessary to uncomment the “date.timezone” setting and set the right timezone for you.

Installing frontend

Zabbix official repository provides fping, iksemel, libssh2 packages for RHEL as well. These packages are located in the non-supported directory.

Debian / Ubuntu

Installing packages

Here is an example for Zabbix server and web frontend installation with MySQL database:

# apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php

Creating initial database

Create Zabbix database and user on MySQL by the following commands, where <root_password> shall be replaced with the actual root password (e.g., shell> mysql -uroot -p12345) and <password> with new password for zabbix user on the database (including apostrophes: …identified by '67890';):

Starting Zabbix server process

Now you may start Zabbix server process and make it start at system boot

# service zabbix-server start
# update-rc.d zabbix-server enable

PHP configuration for Zabbix frontend

Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in /etc/zabbix/apache.conf. Some PHP settings are already configured. But it's necessary to uncomment the “date.timezone” setting and set the right timezone for you.